Let’s not complicate it.

Chasing the Runner’s Tan

There is a little game I like to play every summer. It is called “Chase the Runner’s Tan.” It is a simple diversion with relatively few rules that’s geared toward pigment-deficient individuals such as myself.

The game normally begins on your first summer race. You have trained primarily in cool or cloudy weather, but somehow you are blessed with a beautiful cloudless day on your maiden summer ultra.